შმაგი

Georgian

Etymology

From Middle Georgian შმაგი (šmagi), a Middle Iranian borrowing. See Persian خشم (xašm) for more. Doublet of ეშმაკი (ešmaḳi).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃmaɡi/
  • Hyphenation: შმა‧გი

Adjective
Adjectival declension of შმაგი
Case adjective
nominative, genitive, instrumental შმაგი (šmagi)
ergative შმაგმა (šmagma)
dative, adverbial შმაგ (šmag)
vocative შმაგო (šmago)

შმაგი • (šmagi) (comparative უფრო შმაგი, superlative ყველაზე შმაგი)

  1. (archaic) crazy, insane
  2. (archaic) furious

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • შმაგდება (šmagdeba)
  • აშმაგებს (ašmagebs)
  • შმაგობს (šmagobs)

Proper noun

შმაგი • (šmagi)

  1. a male given name

References
  • Bielmeier, Roland (1985) “Zu iranischen Lehnwörtern im Georgischen und Armenischen”, in H. M. Ölberg, G. Schmidt, editors, Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungen: Festschrift für Johann Knobloch zum 65. Geburtstag (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft; 23) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, pages 34–35
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